Saecula Saeculorum

Just a few secular night shots of Christmas in Dublin in 2011,
starting with Grafton Street viewed from St. Stephen's Green.

Carols from Santy's helpers,
male, female and lay, in Grafton Street.

Joseph O'Connor's Mickey
in a Grafton Street shop window.

Not forgetting Minnie
in the same window.

A fairly elaborate Santy
in Griffith Avenue, Dublin 3.

Happy Scary Halloween 2011

Supervalu, Raheny, Dublin 5

Feeling the Pain

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The caption reads

"Fellow Minister Ruairí Quinn teases Cabinet colleagues during period of health cuts, 1986".

It is reproduced from the autobiography of Barry Desmond who was Minister for Health at the time. Ruairí was known for drawing and passing around cartoons at Cabinet meetings.

This particular one, with a minor change of identities and a quarter of a century later, could have the nation as patient on the table with the Government wielding the scalpel while the IMF/EU/ECB drip lacks the unaffordable anaesthetic.